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Gelato Science Investigation Worksheet

Ari wants to investigate how an ice-and-salt bath changes a gelato mixture. Read the investigation plan and use the results to answer the questions. Safety: do not taste the mixture; keep the bags sealed; avoid touching ice and salt for a long time; wash your hands afterwards. Ask an adult to help.

Investigation plan

Ari puts 100 mL of cream, 100 mL of milk and 2 teaspoons of sugar into a small sealed bag. Ari places it inside a larger sealed bag containing 4 cups of ice and ½ cup of salt. Ari gently shakes the outer bag for 10 minutes while wearing mittens. The salt makes the ice bath colder than ice alone. Cold moves from the mixture into the ice bath, so the mixture freezes and thickens. This investigation tests one method; it does not compare different amounts of salt.

1.Which factor in Ari’s plan is included to help freeze the mixture?
  • Salt added to the ice
  • The time spent shaking
  • The amount of cream in the small bag
2.Complete the prediction: After 10 minutes in the salty ice bath, Ari expects the mixture to become ______ because ______.
3.Ari repeats the investigation with a second bag. Name two things Ari should keep the same so the results can be compared fairly.
4.True or false: Salt makes the ice bath colder, helping it take heat from the gelato mixture.
TrueFalse
5.Ari wants to find out whether adding salt makes a difference. Describe a second test to compare with the salty ice bath. State what should be different and what should stay the same.

Stage

Example observation

Before shaking

Liquid and pourable

After 5 minutes

Colder and beginning to thicken

After 10 minutes

Thick, slushy, or partly frozen

6.The mixture is liquid before shaking and thick after 10 minutes. What changed, and what caused the change?
7.The gelato mixture contains cream, milk and sugar combined together. Is it an element, a compound, or a mixture? Explain your choice.
8.After one test, Ari cannot tell whether the result is reliable. Suggest one improvement and explain how it would help.
9.Choose the safest action if the outer bag leaks while you are shaking it.
  • Stop, put the bag down, tell an adult, and wash your hands if you touched the mixture
  • Taste the mixture to check whether it is ready
  • Keep shaking and wipe the salt and ice off your hands later

2 printable pages

  • Gelato science investigation: illustrated bag-in-bag setup, fair-test planning, predictions and safety.

    Page 1

  • Gelato science investigation: observation table, mixture science, results and improving a test.

    Page 2

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